Agenda
THE AMERICAN LYCEUM AND PUBLIC CULTURE:
THE ORATORY OF IDEALISM, OPPORTUNITY, AND ABOLITION
MAY 20-26, 2007
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
| Sunday, May 20 | |
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| 1:00 - 3:00 | Registration, Northeastern University, Davenport Commons |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Welcome and Orientation to Workshop, 340 Egan Center |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Walking tour of campus |
| 6:00 | Reception, 340 Egan Center and Patio |
| Monday, May 21 | |
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| 8:00 | Depart for Asa Waters Mansion, Milbury, Massachusetts |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | “The American Lyceum as a Site of Public Culture Making” Dr. Robert Gross, University of Connecticut |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Box Lunch, Asa Waters Mansion |
| 1:00 – 4:00 | “Oratory and Public Discourse on the American Lyceum Lecture Circuit” Dean Frederick Antczak, Grand Valley State University |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | Depart for Northeastern University campus |
| Tuesday, May 22 | |
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| 8:00 | Depart for Concord, Massachusetts |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | First Parish Unitarian Church Orientation: Douglas Baker “Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Lyceum Lecture Circuit” Discussion: Frederick Antczak Presentation: Wendell Refior as Emerson |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch in Concord |
| 1:30 – 2:15 | The Concord Museum Orientation by Paula Antonovich |
| 2:15 – 3:15 |
Research and walking tour at Concord Museum |
| 3:15 – 4:30 (optional) |
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Author’s Ridge |
| 4:30 | Depart for Northeastern University campus |
| Wednesday, May 23 | |
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| 8:00 | Depart for Concord, Massachusetts |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | Masonic Temple Lodge “Henry David Thoreau, Wendell Phillips, Abolition, and the American Lyceum” Discussion: Robert Gross Presentation: Richard Smith as Thoreau Michael Ryan as Wendell Phillips |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch in Concord |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Concord Library Orientation by Leslie Perrin Wilson |
| 2:00 – 4:30 | Research at the Concord Library: Lyceum Archives |
| 3:15 (optional) |
Tour of Emerson House |
| 4:30 | Depart for Northeastern University campus |
| Thursday, May 24 | |
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| 8:00 | Depart for Mechanics Hall and American Antiquarian Society Worcester, Massachusetts |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | Mechanics Hall, Washburn Hall “Women on the American Lyceum Lecture Circuit” Discussion: Anne Mattina, Stonehill College Presentation: Judith Black as Lucy Stone Susan Lenoe as Sarah Grimke Lani Peterson as Angelina Grimke |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch in downtown Worcester |
| 1:30 – 4:30 | American Antiquarian Society Orientation by Jim Moran |
| 2:30 – 4:30 | Research at American Antiquarian Society on Lyceum archives |
| 4:30 | Depart for Northeastern University campus |
| Friday, May 25 | |
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| 8:00 | Depart for Lyceum Hall Salem, Massachusetts |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | “Frederick Douglass on the Lyceum Lecturing Circuit,” Discussion: Robert Hall, Northeastern University David Coleman, Middlesex College Presentation: Robert Hall as Douglass |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 4:00 | “Edward Everett: Biography on the American Lyceum Lecture Circuit” Discussion: Richard Katula, Northeastern University Presentation: James Cooke as Everett |
| 4:00 | Depart for Northeastern University |
| Saturday, May 26 | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 | Final rehearsals for group reports |
| 9:00 – Noon | Reports The final morning of the workshop will involve individual reports on ways to integrate the information gained into curricular plans or research projects. We will do this to some extent through volunteers, and during the week I will ask for volunteers to identify themselves. These reports may also take place as group presentations. We will also discuss research papers and how these will be responded to by the Director. Finally, we will have a plenary session during which we will discuss any topic agreeable to the group, perhaps the difficult questions about the Lyceum Movement, its relevance today, the rhetoric of the 19th century, etc., etc. |